Breaking Defense:

The Defense Department’s Space Test Program (STP) is setting up a system to buy commercial satellite buses capable of carrying multiple experiments to orbit, with an eye on choosing the first vendors in December.

The effort, called Space Test Experiments Platform 2.0 (STEP 2.0), aims to create a consortium of providers who have flight-proven buses via an indefinite delivery/indefinite quality (ID/IQ) contract, Lt. Col. Jonathan Shea, STP director, said Monday.

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